Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
I noticed the other day that my dessert-oriented blog is missing one of my favorite desserts: the humble, all-American chocolate chip cookie. True, it is probably one of the easiest cookies on the face of the planet to make, and there is a recipe for it on every bag of chocolate chips that you can […]
One of the oldest cookies is the jumbal. It’s a crunchy cookie that can be shaped like a ring or a pretzel, or any other which way you like. Here is Mary Randolph’s version of it from her 1838 cookbook, “The Virginia Housewife.” This cookie does not seemed to have made into my cookbooks covering […]
The cafeteria at my college dorm had a killer dessert counter. Even for ice cream sundae day, they had mounds of my favorite candy bar of all time–Goldenberg Peanut Chews–as a topping choice along with true blue hot fudge and a whole host of other unhealthy but tasty goodies. One “everything but the kitchen sink” […]
My kids had a rough week – tests at school and grueling after-school activities – so I wanted to give them a nice treat. I wanted to bake them oatmeal raisin cookies, thinking that it’s the healthier alternative to chocolate chip cookies (ha, ha). Lo and behold, I’m out of raisins. Plain oatmeal cookies would […]
I’m calling these cookies “Polish” not because they are a traditionally Polish, but instead because I made them while visiting Poland over Christmas. While I could have sworn that I repeated exactly what I would have done had I made them in my own kitchen in America–aside from the colored sugar crystals which were nonexistent […]